“If you believe you are doing the right thing for all the people of South Carolina - men and women and babies - you should have no problem putting this to the people,” said Democratic Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, alleging that Republicans fear they would lose if the issue went directly to voters.
Access to abortion has won when it's been on the ballot. That's not an option for half the states
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It has never expanded Medicaid, raised the minimum wage and perpetually has an education system that ranks toward the bottom of the nation, said Democratic Sen. Margie Bright Matthews of Walterboro.
South Carolina Senate passes bill outlawing most abortions
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